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Pictures reflect the inner person: your memories, aspirations and dreams. Since a master bedroom is the place where you retreat for rest and replenishment, it's the perfect setting for groupings of meaningful pictures. Master bedrooms also have large furniture pieces, like a bed, which provides the opportunity to display interesting picture arrangements over the headboard. You may hang your framed family photos in your bedroom and display pictures purchased on trips. In some master bedrooms, pictures are selected to integrate with soothing, harmonizing color schemes.

Over Curved Headboards

A round frame balances the high peak of a curved headboard, especially when you arrange four same-sized, rectangular frames to form a square around the round frame. In asymmetrical groupings, a centered round frame becomes a focal point. This method also works with undulating headboards, especially when the frames are small. Other curved elements also balance the headboard's arch, including curved night stands, pendant lights, lamp bases and prominent curvilinear rug patterns.

Over Rectangular Headboards

Rectangular headboards easily accommodate symmetrical groupings, providing the widest range of spatial options, since most frames have a rectangular format. In a traditional master bedroom, a grouping of architectural photos or drawings of buildings you saw while on a trip corresponds with the bed's classical motifs. Pewter frames with linear detailing relate to fluting on a neoclassical bed's tapering legs, and a Louis XVI chair with tapering, fluted legs completes the look.

Asymmetrical Picture Groupings

Bedroom furniture provides many opportunities to hang asymmetrical picture groupings. Above a chest or dresser, a triad of small oil paintings is striking, especially if you include a miniature oil painting in an over-sized frame. When hung in a stair-step manner, two 8c10 oil paintings in medium-sized frames form a space for the miniature oil painting, which draws attention in an over-sized frame. In a master bedroom with dark and ornate furniture, oil paintings also provide a balancing function due to their fully saturated colors.

Tapestries and Unframed Oil Paintings

A large tapestry traverses the full length of a bed, and its motifs and colors are frequently echoed in curtains or on a patterned rug. Sides or wooden side strips on unframed oil paintings are often painted to complement bedroom colors. An interesting master bedroom mix includes an antique-black platform bed without a headboard. Above the bed, an over-sized abstract oil painting, in a range of pastel colors, echoes the airy feel of a low-hanging crystal chandelier. A mint-green dresser relates to a mint-green bedspread, while a narrow antique-black frame corresponds with narrow, black bed legs.

Master Bedroom History Walls

History walls, which feature random-looking groupings of framed family photos, are often hung in bedrooms. Frames of similar width but with varied detailing and mat size add interest. Medium-sized pictures with smaller mats juxtapose well with wallet-sized family photos, framed in wide and heavily weighted bottom mats. History walls are more unified when hung on an accent wall that blends with the frames' hue. In master bedrooms with cool color schemes, silver, pewter or antique black frames coordinate, while warmer color schemes correspond with gold-toned or lighter wood frames.

About the Author

Based in Franklin, Tenn., Anya Deason has more than 15 years of decor-related experience, assisting leading interior designers and owning a custom frame shop. While working at Lyzon Gallery in 1999, she wrote descriptions of artwork for Sotheby's online auctions. Deason holds a Bachelor of Science from Tennessee Technological University.